- @bjork55 at Bjork Report suggests the not-so-secret real reason for the shutdown.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit discovers a working stereotype that she applies to every Trump political appointee.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post marks the first anniversay of the Trump administration with a fervent prayer that the nation be spared another.
- At Stinque, nojo has developed a truly hilarious account of the Stormy-Donald encounter. Almost like nojo was a greatly amused fly on the … uh … fly.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil doesn’t seem to think most of America will be sexually aroused at the mental image of Trump in his underwear chasing after a porn star. I can testify that I intend to spend the whole rest of the day not thinking about that.
- My old, true friend, T. Paine at Saving Common Sense, publishes 31 reasons to love Israel. They go from technical accomplishments and historical achievements to the most petty things conceived by mortal imagination. I confess to a failure of awe. I think it’s enough that Jews, as religious and ethnic group, have faced enough existential threats to justify a special homeland. That would be true even if Israel had not produced a more effective treatment for acne. That was my friend’s reason number 29. Really. Acne.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass speculates on why a Republican lawmaker in Kentucky would push to legalize marijuana. Is he … well … selling in?
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes likes songs by Randy Newman because they appeal to those who can appreciate being the targets of intelligent mockery.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study on whether we can know that cooking is complete by throwing spaghetti at a wall.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from AP, as German linguists declare a word meaning “alternative facts” to be a non-word.